“Come upstairs,” she said, “and I will show you your room. Something in her lack of embarrassment irritated him. Can't I make you understand? Perhaps it sounds cruel to you; but we women often have to be cruel defensively. "Poor Jack!" cried Winifred, burying her face in her lover's bosom. A fortnight passed, then a month. The chief scene of these disgusting orgies,—the cellar, just referred to,—was a large low-roofed vault, about four feet below the level of the street, perfectly dark, unless when illumined by a roaring fire, and candles stuck in pyramidal lumps of clay, with a range of butts and barrels at one end, and benches and tables at the other, where the prisoners, debtors, and malefactors male and female, assembled as long as their money lasted, and consumed the time in drinking, smoking, and gaming with cards and dice. He wondered if the young fool had any idea of what he had drawn in this tragic lottery called marriage. "Here's the full, true, and particular account of Jack Sheppard's last astonishing and never-to-be-forgotten escape from the Castle of Newgate," bawled the hawker, "with a print of him taken from the life, showing the manner, how he was shackled and handcuffed. Plots were hatched in the provinces, where many of the old and wealthy Catholic families resided, whose zeal for the martyr of their religion (as the Chevalier was esteemed), sharpened by the persecutions they themselves endured, rendered them hearty and efficient allies. She let go of him and stood up, straightening herself. Something, I'm convinced, has happened to the boys. But I have two hundred thousand pounds.
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